Kaveh Medani

For much of the world, normal is gone.

Calling for a fundamental shift in how the global community understands our most vital resource, water.

I'm known back home for a person who was warning about these days, so...

This is happening.

And then media contacts me and says, how do you feel?

I wish I was wrong.

It's miserable to feel and to know that your compatriots are suffering.

You are going to suffer.

The chaos, the fear, the stress.

Even in my darkest days.

I was not thinking that Tehran would hit this day so early.

Tehran is not the first place that has experienced a situation like this, and it won't be the last one.

How can something be a crisis for almost 50 years?

Maybe this is a wrong terminology for a chronic problem.

A crisis is a shock.

It's a temporary deviation from a normal that you're used to.

But if the crisis is there forever, if it becomes chronic, it's part of the system.

That's an essential element of the system that you need to face.

Whenever you have touched the tap, you have had water.

And all of a sudden, you have to get used to a new sort of life.